Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

p f Beware of the men who aie always trying to defend the scoundrels who are fattening on public plunder. A dose inspection will generally reveal the fact that they are sharing in the booty.—Hebron News. b fe k i i i The Indiana supreme court holds that the statute prohibiting Sunday baseball is valid. Major McKinley’s powder and ball argument is still getting in its work of “benevolent assimilation” in the Philippines. Ex-Supreme Judge Timothy E. Howard of South Bend, is of the opinion that the Barrett law, relating to street assessments, is valid. How will you take it? with “padding” or without? If the latter, insist on your attorneys having the publication made in The Democrat. We refer to legal advertisements. The editor of the Apologist has shed tears of blood over the meager salaries of county officers provided by the fee and salary law. It is now in, order for him to get after the soalpof the republican at-torney-general to be consistent. In the opinion of Newspaperdom, 95 per cent of the libel suits brought against newspapers are unquestionably of the nature of “strikes,” for the purposeof extorting money from their proprietors, under the legalized pretense of damage to a person’s reputation, as a rule already in the hands of the embalmer or badly needing his services. We notice that our contemporaries make no mention of the fact of the Jasper County Telephone Co., having been placed on the tax duplicate for over SIB,OOO, covering a period of three years back. Why is this? Are they afraid of their readers giving a little credit to the Tike Democrat for this having been done? The taxpayers will not forget it, however. As has been before stated in these columns, any statement appearing in The Democrat in regard to county affairs will be proven to the satisfaction of any taxpayor or committee of taxpayers by the official records* if they will take the trouble to call at this office and go with the writer to the records, and provided further that the party or parties so doing will believe the evidence of their own eyes. Last Tuesday the supreme court rendered a decision on a tax ferret case from Wayne county, reversing the decision of the lower court for holding that the county commissioners had no right to employ tax ferrets, on an agreement to pay 25 per cent of the amount actually turned in. This case is something similar to the case from this county now pending in the su- ; preme court, and no doubt practically decides the matter in favor j of the legality of their employment by our board of commissioners. Last week The Democrat stated that fthe allowance to (x. E. Mar|lggsUxfor publishing the last de--1 lihquent tax list showed an overr Charge of $22.55, and that his al‘fowance for publishing the notice of tax levy snowed another over.{ffiarge of about $25. These are bu t iWQ instances, and as Mr. Marshall fUfc'hAd practically all the county Printing for years, and no doubt iHnry bill shows a proportionate UPercharge, the amount that lias llleen paid him in the way of overcharges must have been enormous, pp it to be wondered at that Mr. Marshall wishes to “down” a newspaper that is showing jip such “ir-